It seemed like an old story of an assassin, originally trained by the Mossad (sounds like Gabriel Allon in the Daniel Silva books), who is growing older (now 39) and is questioning the choices he's made in his life. It’s a kill or be killed existence, but how does he get out of the life. The author describes a hit man who has no presence in the data world. No one knows what he looks like or where he is from. He’s a language master and speaks multiple languages fluently and without accent. He makes his contracts through a dark web site, and he only deals with his clients by that means. Also, Rubenstein repeatedly makes the point that his protagonist, Eli Dagan, has already accumulated money to live comfortably for the rest of his life, so he really does not need to take another job. But, inexplicably, he does so. Yet, he denies being attracted by the financial arrangements which provide him with his highest fees ever. Then, inexplicably, he suddenly agrees to break his anonymity by meeting face-to-face with a mob boss that wants him to kill another mob boss, although Dagan is required to make it look like a natural death, not an assassination.
Dagan gets entangled with a woman of remarkable beauty. In his lust for her and for a new life, he seems to shut down all of his usual wariness of such relationships, a decision which nearly leads to his death. While I’m interested in reading more of Rubensteins works, especially Beyond Bedlam’s Door, I cannot give Assassins Lullaby a great recommendation.
WCD
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